Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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